It Just Takes Three Weeks

Summary: Kinomoto Sakura, an average girl who has many friends, but looks like a nerd. Li Syaoran, a popular guy who could have any girl he wanted, except one particular girl,

Kinomoto Sakura. They hate each other to bits. What could be worse than going to school together? Sakura thought nothing, but then he started to become her neighbour! But

after a long field trip, everything changes, Sakura's appearance, Syaoran's attitude, even… their feelings towards each other?

"speech"

'thoughts'

(A/N: me talking)

(action)

#change of scenery#

Disclaimer: CCS does not belong to me. Not yet anyway…

Chapter 20: Like sister like brother

"Come on! Don't try to bluff your way out of this! That whole speech about love? You would only know that if you were actually in love with someone. Who is it?"

"No one!" I am not prepared to tell my big brother that I am actually in love with HIS girlfriend.

"I know who it is…" I stared at him through wide eyes.

"It's Sakura…"

Normal POV

Syaoran stayed still. There was silence between them for about 5 hours. Okay, more like 5 seconds, but hours, seconds…what's the difference? Syaoran started to open his mouth

to say something, but was stopped by the expression on Dai-ran's face. He was laughing his head off!

"You should have seen the look on your face! Priceless!" Syaoran sighed a breath of relief, and joined in the conversation.

"Yeah! There's no way I would love Sakura right? She's YOUR girlfriend!" he faked a really lame laugh, but Dai-ran bought it anyway.

"Okay! See ya later Syaoran! You've really made my day today!" and with that, he walked off still chuckling.

"Thank God I've got a brother with the size of a peanut brain." He suddenly felt dizzy, and fell onto his knees. He then realised one of his hands was still clamped over his wound.

He groaned as he got up, and went to the direction of the nurse's office.

Sakura's POV

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, and a million more times oh my God! I can't believe Syaoran did those things for me. I understand that he's a good friend of mine, but why

did he run away? Unless…nah! That can't be true. He likes Tasaki. Maybe in my dreams…but not in this lifetime. I sighed. Now I understand those complicated adult novels that

my mother had. Loving someone is hard…I never understood that phrase. But now I do. I checked my watch. Lunch…the time of day I've been dreading. Since yesterday and

this morning, I wonder what everyone will think of me? I can't skip lunch too, because the teacher's always makes a speech about something, and checks if we're there or not.

Slowly, I made my way to lunch.

Normal POV

Sakura walked into the room, only to be greeted by stares and some whispering. She walked past a table, not noticing Tasaki was sitting there. She continued walking until she

tripped over something, and fell down flat on her face.

"Was my foot in the way? I'm sooo sorry!" Tasaki said through the giggles and chuckles of the class. (A/N: this class has a weird sense of humour, don't you think?)

Sakura just calmly stood back on her feet, which surprised nearly everyone. Then, she spoke calmly.

"You've got a hair removal strip on your leg." Tasaki quickly examined her leg and found a strip on the top of her thigh. She quickly pulled it off, and turned a bit red as the class

were louder than the first time. Sakura walked past her, and sat down on a table on her own. She heard Tasaki whispering indistinctive things, but she knew it was about her. Her

whole group suddenly laughed at something she said whilst looking at Sakura. But one of the boys weren't laughing, and instead, he stood up and pounded his fist on the table.

"Tasaki! You shouldn't say mean things about her! She is a human being as well you know?" it was her brother.

"What?" she just simply returned.

"Apologise to her!" he raised his voice.

"…"

"NOW!" Everyone in the room jumped form the sudden outburst.

"Sorry…" she muttered quietly but loud enough for everyone to hear, before she and the rest of her group left the room. Only her brother, Sasaki, remained. He slowly made his

way to Sakura, and sat down next to her. He then glared at the people who were staring at them. With that glare as a warning, they quickly went back to talking and eating.

"I'm sorry about the behaviour of my sister. She's just jealous of you." Sakura remembered him. Syaoran beat him up at the football pitch. She realised he still had a bruise on his

left cheek, and one around his eyes.

"Why did you defend me? Didn't you set up that plan with your sister to humiliate me?" she asked, cutting to the chase. He just replied with a groan.

"Everyone thinks that just because my sister's evil, I am too. I think that's why Li hit me. He thought that I had something to do with the plan, but I really didn't! When anyone

mentions me, they'll straight away think the brother of Tasaki. No one will accept me as ME!" she noticed some tears forming in his eyes.

"I'm sorry…"

"It doesn't matter. You never knew anyway." He sighed. Sakura felt really bad for accusing him of something he didn't do. He suddenly got up.

"I'll see you around sometime then. I'll just go back to my room."

"Your room? Don't you hang around with any of your friends at this time?" another sad look spread on his face.

"I…don't have any friends…" Sakura was shocked.

"No friends at all?" Sasaki slowly shook his head.

"But I see you with lots of people around. Aren't they your friends?"

"No, they're Tasaki's friends. They only hang around with me because I'm her brother. I don't have any real friends." Sakura couldn't help but pity him. An idea came up in her

head.

"Hey! Why don't I be your first real friend?"

"Really…?" Sakura nodded. A smile grew on Sasaki's face.

"I can't believe this…a friend…finally…a real friend!" Sakura smiled.

"You can call me Sakura. No need for the stupid honorifics or surname calling. (A/N: In case you don't know, honorifics are the –san, -chan, -kun, etc, that Japanese people put

on the names afterwards. But you don't use the honorifics if you are close to that person, in fact, it can be insulting if you don't use honorifics to someone not close to you, or

without their permission.)

"Sakura…" Sasaki said.

"Can I call you Sasaki then?" Sasaki just nodded.

#Sasaki's room#

Sasaki slowly walked in his room, and collapsed on his bed. Then at the same time, Tasaki walked in.

"What do you think you were doing just then?" she had her hands on her hips.

"What WAS I doing?"

"You with the apologising thing!"

"Oh my God…Are you really that stupid? Listen, if I help her now and pretend to be her friend, I can always interrupt her and Li together, so then you can swoop in and steal him

away, and when I'm finished with her, I'll just throw her away. She is quite cute, you know." Tasaki quickly jumped on her brother for a hug.

"Thank you for helping me so much!"


Hi ya again! I'm sorry, but the next chapter might take longer for me to update, cos my parents are conifiscating my laptop. Sorry! Anyway, do you think this story is dragging on?

Cos nothings happening, anyway, gotta go.